Summary of Molecular Facts: Desiderata For Decontextualization in Llm Fact Verification, by Anisha Gunjal and Greg Durrett
Molecular Facts: Desiderata for Decontextualization in LLM Fact Verification
by Anisha Gunjal, Greg Durrett
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to automatic factuality verification of large language model (LLM) generations, addressing the challenge of granularity in fact-checking. The authors argue that fully atomic facts are not sufficient and introduce the concept of molecular facts, defined by decontextualization (ability to stand alone) and minimality (amount of extra information added). They quantify the impact of decontextualization on minimality and present a baseline methodology for generating molecular facts automatically. Comparing their approach with various methods, they find that molecular facts achieve better fact verification accuracy in ambiguous settings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is trying to solve a problem with language models. These models can make things up (hallucinations) which is bad. To stop this from happening, people are checking if what the model said is true or not. The question is, how do we check this? Do we look at big chunks of text or individual facts? The authors think that individual facts aren’t enough because they might be missing context. They propose a new way to make these facts more useful by adding just the right amount of information to help understand them. This approach works better than others in tricky situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Large language model
